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Xozhixi Spaceport, Thyferra
1145 hours, local time
A wise man once said that you don't breath the air on Thyferra, you drink it. Essja realized more and more with each passing hour how true that was.
He was sweating underneath his armor as he made his way down the sidewalk, looking to storefront windows to see if he was being tailed, and occasionally glancing over his shoulder randomly to double-check. Of course nobody stood out among the local Vratix and humans who filled the streets and sidewalks, bustling about on their daily lives, and paying Essja no mind. He and those like him came and went all the time and one mercenary or bounty hunter was no different from the next to most of this people. He didn't even see a head turn his way as he dipped into an alley to slip free of the crowd and head for the pre-planned meeting point. Another quick glance as he neared the back lot confirmed he was fine and he slipped through the partly ajar gate of the fence lined with metal panels for privacy.
The speeder was a rental under a false name. It was an old thing that was beaten to hell by the last fifty million people who'd put down their credits to use it to zoom around the city, but so far it had started every time Essja had keyed the engine, and the AC was powerful enough to give him goosebumps when he wore short-sleeves so it was just fine to him. In the trunk was a collection of bags: three in total. One was the rest of his personal equipment, besides the armor he now wore and the blaster at his hip, and the other two were a backpack and duffel bag. Like any good bounty hunter, Essja knew that sometimes the best way to deal with a target was with inordinate amounts of . . . ordinance. So along with some spare cans of Firespray and extra ammo for his carbine and blaster, he carried multiple packs of Czerka-branded high explosives. The malleable stuff that you could pack into the cracks of a wall to make a shaped charge with plenty of bang. For a bounty that might be harder to take down than most.
It was surprisingly legal to acquire that sort of stuff, even in Republic territory. The allowances they made for a profession was astounding.
Those two bags and his personal were retrieved and he set about equipping himself with his ammo, carbine, grenades, and other gear.
And with that done? He pulled open the gate to the lot, slipped into the speeder, and started it running. Merging into traffic was an uneventful affair even for the time of day and he found that going towards the spaceport found him going with the flow of traffic. Of course after an hour of dealing with traffic he had the actual hassle of finding a spot somewhere not too far from the port before he was able to touch down. It was in the rental return lot, no less - where the rental agency agreed they'd send someone to puck it up later that day for him to return it. He gathered his things, lit a cigarra, and with his pack across his back and the duffel bag slung over one shoulder he stepped in among the hellishly crowded front entrance - all while he scanned around past the first security checkpoint for where he might find a decent bite to eat.
This damn humidity had him jonesing for something cool and light.
@Killtec
1145 hours, local time
A wise man once said that you don't breath the air on Thyferra, you drink it. Essja realized more and more with each passing hour how true that was.
He was sweating underneath his armor as he made his way down the sidewalk, looking to storefront windows to see if he was being tailed, and occasionally glancing over his shoulder randomly to double-check. Of course nobody stood out among the local Vratix and humans who filled the streets and sidewalks, bustling about on their daily lives, and paying Essja no mind. He and those like him came and went all the time and one mercenary or bounty hunter was no different from the next to most of this people. He didn't even see a head turn his way as he dipped into an alley to slip free of the crowd and head for the pre-planned meeting point. Another quick glance as he neared the back lot confirmed he was fine and he slipped through the partly ajar gate of the fence lined with metal panels for privacy.
The speeder was a rental under a false name. It was an old thing that was beaten to hell by the last fifty million people who'd put down their credits to use it to zoom around the city, but so far it had started every time Essja had keyed the engine, and the AC was powerful enough to give him goosebumps when he wore short-sleeves so it was just fine to him. In the trunk was a collection of bags: three in total. One was the rest of his personal equipment, besides the armor he now wore and the blaster at his hip, and the other two were a backpack and duffel bag. Like any good bounty hunter, Essja knew that sometimes the best way to deal with a target was with inordinate amounts of . . . ordinance. So along with some spare cans of Firespray and extra ammo for his carbine and blaster, he carried multiple packs of Czerka-branded high explosives. The malleable stuff that you could pack into the cracks of a wall to make a shaped charge with plenty of bang. For a bounty that might be harder to take down than most.
It was surprisingly legal to acquire that sort of stuff, even in Republic territory. The allowances they made for a profession was astounding.
Those two bags and his personal were retrieved and he set about equipping himself with his ammo, carbine, grenades, and other gear.
And with that done? He pulled open the gate to the lot, slipped into the speeder, and started it running. Merging into traffic was an uneventful affair even for the time of day and he found that going towards the spaceport found him going with the flow of traffic. Of course after an hour of dealing with traffic he had the actual hassle of finding a spot somewhere not too far from the port before he was able to touch down. It was in the rental return lot, no less - where the rental agency agreed they'd send someone to puck it up later that day for him to return it. He gathered his things, lit a cigarra, and with his pack across his back and the duffel bag slung over one shoulder he stepped in among the hellishly crowded front entrance - all while he scanned around past the first security checkpoint for where he might find a decent bite to eat.
This damn humidity had him jonesing for something cool and light.
@Killtec